Fantascope disc depicting rings and triangles in abstract patterns (white background)
1833
Two Fantascope discs by Edward Sang
- maker:
- Forrester and Nichol and John Dunn
Two Fantascope discs designed by Edward Sang (published by Forrester & Nicol, Edinburgh and John Dunn (Edinburgh Optician)).
Forrester & Nichol of Edinburgh, a firm of engravers and lithographers - 'Drawings by Artists and Amateurs carefully Printed' - published a set entitled The Phenakistiscope or Magic Disc in the early autumn of 1833, in association with local optician John Dunn. Subjects included genre and natural history - a couple playing with their young child, a lifelike crawling beetle - and several mechanical animations designed by Scottish mathematician Edward Sang (1805-1890), best known for his logarithmic tables.
Details
- Category:
- Cinematography
- Object Number:
- 1934-141
- Materials:
- ink and paper (fibre product)
- type:
- phenakistoscope and optical toy
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford
